Ted Nugent called his nationwide summer tour âShutup & Jam!â but the â70s rocker did everything but shut up as he was hit with cancelled concerts and blistering criticism for his racist and anti-Indian statements.
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Ted Nugent called his nationwide summer tour âShutup & Jam!â but the â70s rocker did everything but shut up as he was hit with cancelled concerts and blistering criticism for his racist and anti-Indian statements.
A retired carpenter from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., by way of the Bronx, longs to be the Johnny Appleseed of the so-called âcommon-law grand juriesâ movement â a crusade by extreme-right âsovereign citizensâ to create a judicial alternate universe.
Attorney and author Edgar J. Steele, who dove deeply into the world of anti-Semitism and racist extremism after unsuccessfully defending Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler, died Aug. 4 in a federal prison in California. He was 69, serving a 50-year term for hiring a hit man to murder his wife and her mother so he could start a relationship with another woman.
Ross Hack, the alleged neo-Nazi mastermind behind the ambush murders of two anti-racist skinheads 16 years ago, was found not guilty by a federal jury in Las Vegas in September despite his sisterâs and ex-girlfriendâs dramatic testimony against him. Hackâs co-defendant, Leland Jones, was also acquitted after the two-week trial that included a parade of white supremacists and meth addicts, testifying for both the prosecution and the defense.
What a busy sovereign season it has been.
Poor Russell Pearce. He just canât keep a job.
A recent report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finds that the April confrontation between the federal government and a Nevada rancher will likely inspire more radical antigovernment violence â the same conclusion reached earlier in a major study of the incident by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
White-haired and 66, William "Jerry" Boykin is an old soldier who refuses to fade away. A popular speaker on the conservative Christian speaking circuit, Boykin is constantly on the road, crisscrossing the country from pulpit to pulpit, recruiting a Christian army to battle the forces of Satan, hell-bent, he says, on destroying America with such weapons as same-sex marriage, radical Islamists, gun control, abortion, and a âMarxist modelâ for world conquest.
Russia Today, a Moscow-headquartered news network aimed at enhancing Russiaâs image in the West, is not known for its level-headed approach to the news. Since its founding in 2005, the network has endlessly touted 9/11 conspiracy theories, questioned President Obamaâs place of birth, quoted âjournalistsâ from unhinged ânewsâ sources like WorldNetDaily, and even, in one case, interviewed a well-known white supremacist about Obama without mentioning his racism.
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